THE SCREAM - EDVARD MUNCH. The art market is monopolized by billionaires from different parts of the world : France, United States, China or Middle East. Art is not experiencing a market failure. The global value of the Art market has doubled in ten years. The Art market compared to other cultural sectors The surface of each square rrepresents the global market revenue for each sector (in euros). Even though the paintings, drawings and sculptures sold for more than a million dollars represent only 0,23% of the total sales, in value, they represent nearly half of the market! Only a few billionaires monopolize the market of high value works of art. The royal family of Qatar bought “The Card Players” by Cézanne for 191 million euros. 2.

Government spending by department, 2011-12: get the data. It is a lot of money, but what does £694.89bn really buy you in 2012?

Guardian Data's annual audit of UK government spending this year shows huge cuts taking place across supposedly protected areas of government as the austerity programme hits home. Public spending in 2011-12 was £694.89bn - compared to £689.63bn in 2010-11. That may look like an increase but once inflation is taken into account, it is a real-terms cut of 1.58%, or £10.8bn. However, that £10.8bn cut masks big drops in spending in over 40 government departments and quangos, including 'protected' areas such as health and education. We have identified 45 departments or non-departmental public bodies with cuts in spending - those groups have suffered £72bn cuts in real terms in a single year, equivalent to around 10% of annual spending. Explore the graphic The data - for the financial year 2011-12 - is the first time this year's information has been collected in a single place.

The Losers The winners. ConnectedPRC. REDE_ESCANDALOS_EN. DC Kids Count Data Tools. We measured the presence of six assets: high levels of homeownership, low levels of violent crime, high levels of youth (age 16-24) employment and the presence of recreation centers, libraries and grocery stores.

(Not all of these are mapped here.) Nearly every neighborhood cluster had at least one asset. High-asset neighborhoods are in every quadrant of the city. Nearly half (49,000) of DC children live in these neighborhoods. Viewed another way, however, slightly more than half of DC children do not live in a high-asset neighborhood. Neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of assets (all six asset indicators) are in the Northwest quadrant of the city. Notably, two neighborhoods clusters have none of the institutional assets (libraries, grocery stores and recreation center) in the analysis.
Who in Congress Supports SOPA and PIPA/PROTECT-IP?
Le Pariteur. Code 4 Kenya. GotToVote GotToVote!

Is an example of how open data can be useful to ordinary citizens. GotToVote! Was built as a Code4Kenya data journalism project to demonstrate how data-driven tools can help ordinary citizens decipher and then act on the news they read / watch, by finding out how a national event such as the elections affects their personal lives or local communities.
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